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ROK National and Armed Forces Day Union Minister attends ISA renewable
celebrated in Nay Pyi Taw energy exhibition
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Peace Process
With the peace process at the centre, national reconciliation can be also achieved, and this, shall
lead to a democratic transition and the establishment of the Union.
The main goal of the current peace process is to reach political agreements, to sign the Union
Accord, and to implement steps for establishing a Union based on democracy and federalism.
In doing so, common approaches will be agreed through the process of holding political dialogue.
The role of the military in the peace process is also very crucial. We need to overcome many challenges
harmoniously during the peace process.
(Excerpt from the report on the current work of the Union Government, delivered at the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on 19 September 2018)

Ministry torches
ivory, seized illegal
wildlife parts
AN ESTIMATED US$1.3 million worth
of confiscated ivory and other parts of
endangered wildlife were incinerated
in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
In the first ever public event of this
kind against the illicit trade, authorities
set fire to pyres stacked with 277 ivory,
227 bones of elephant and other wild-
life, 45 pieces of different wildlife skins,
1,544 different horns, 45.5 kilogram of
pangolin scales, and 128 varieties of
other wildlife parts, with a total weight
of approximately 849.26 kilogram.
“Poaching and the illegal trade of
wild animals in Myanmar have been
increasing year by year,” said Union
Minister for Natural Resources and
Environmental Conservation U Ohn
Win.
He also noted that Myanmar is
losing its iconic national treasures —
elephants, tigers, bears, pangolins and
birds, in the name of profit and greed.
The objective of the country’s
first ever public event is to send the
message that trade in illegal wildlife
parts, including illegal bush meat, is
not acceptable.
A press release issued by the Min-
istry of Natural Resources and Envi-
ronmental Conservation stated that
the confiscated items of wildlife were
destroyed to raise public awareness
for law enforcement on illegal trade of
wild fauna and flora, for legal actions
taken against illegal wildlife trading
and poaching and for promoting inter-
national cooperation with Myanmar
in fighting the illegal trade in wildlife.
Globally, the illegal wildlife trade
is estimated to be worth over US$40
billion a year, run by crime syndicates
involved in other organized crimes,
including drugs, human and arms Union Ministers Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe, U Ohn Win and Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption
trafficking. Commission U Aung Kyi stoke the fire to incinerate the pile of confiscated ivory and other parts
SEE PAGE-3 of endangered wildlife in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.  PHOTO: MNA

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2 NATIONAL
School textbook quality requisites discussed
UNION Minister for Informa-
tion Dr. Pe Myint attended and
addressed an event held at the
Ministry of Information yesterday
morning, where the quality of the
school textbooks was discussed.
At the event, the Union Min-
ister said the Ministry of Infor-
mation is working together with
the Ministry of Education to print
and distribute school textbooks
for academic year 2019-2020. The
textbooks will be jointly printed by
Ministry of Information’s Print-
ing and Publishing Department
(PPD), private businesses and
companies, and the two min-
istries were working together,
starting from tender works to
purchase and import raw mate-
rials. JICA (Japan International
Cooperation Agency) and CRE-
ATE (Curriculum Reform at Pri-
mary Level of Basic Education)
Union Minister meets UN High
Commissioner for Refugees
UNION Minister for Social Wel-
fare, Relief and Resettlement
Dr. Win Myat Aye, who is also
Vice-Chairman of the Union En-
terprise for Humanitarian Assis-
tance, Resettlement and Devel-
opment in Rakhine (UEHRD),
is in Geneva, Switzerland, to
attend the 69th session of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the High
Commissioner’s Programme.
The Union Minister met with
Mr. Filippo Grandi, the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, at
the UN office at 6:30pm local
standard time yesterday. During
the meeting, the Union Minister
explained about the assistance
given to the displaced people in
sheltered camps in Kachin and
Shan states, assistance provid-
ed to the IDP camps in Rakhine
State, and the drafting of a mas-
ter strategic plan to close down
the various displaced people
camps, set up for people fleeing
from armed conflicts or battles
all across Myanmar, that are no
longer needed.
The Union Minister said My-
anmar is endeavoring for rule
of law, development, peace and
reconciliation, and establishing
a federal democratic union. Al-
though we are facing negative
consequences of the long-term
internal conflicts, we are work-
ing with an authentic outlook for
peace, development and recon-
ciliation, he said.
He highlighted the imple-
Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint addresses the meeting for printing and distributing school textbooks at the
Ministry of Information yesterday.  PHOTO: MNA
are much appreciated for coming
to explain about the quality re-
quired in school textbooks said
the Union Minister.
Next JICA CREATE Project
Coordinator Ms. Hikari Miyahara
explained about JICA work pro-
mentation of the recommenda-
tions from Advisory Commission
of Rakhine State to work with the
existing laws and bylaws in repat-
riating the displaced people who
fled from Rakhine State.
The Union Minister also dis-
cussed Myanmar’s readiness to
follow the agreements signed
with the neighboring country,
and how assistance is necessary
from the associated countries
and international organizations
for long-term rehabilitation.
He said it is important for as-
sistance for the displaced people
to be distributed proportionately
to the country that has accepted
them and of the country of origin,
in line with international agree-
ments. He said the discussions
for repatriation conducted be-
tween Bangladesh and Myanmar
is of vital importance and that all
corresponding matters need to
be honest and transparent.
The UN High Commissioner
for Refugees, in turn, said they
cess and CREATE project mat-
ters. This was followed by CRE-
ATE Project printing technician
Mr. Fumitaka Sato explaining in
detail about the printing quali-
ty and sturdiness in publishing
school textbooks, findings from
Union Minister
Dr. Win Myat Aye
shakes hands
with Mr. Filippo
Grandi.  chairperson, member arrive
PHOTO: MNA
understand that the nature of
reunification is diverse and
carries multiple challenges. He
said they will continue providing
support concerning Myanmar
and acknowledged Myanmar’s
step-by-step adherence to the
repatriation process in Rakhine
State, as well as its support and
collaborations.
He said the UNHCR un-
derstands the importance of
inclusive development and that
the ‘Solidarity Approach for the
people of Rakhine State’ has been
compiled to strengthen the sup-
port form donor countries and
international organizations for
the displaced people between My-
anmar and Bangladesh. It will be
implemented after discussions
with Myanmar and other rele-
vant entities, he said. He urged
representatives from Myanmar
to attend a meeting on 22 October
for the aforementioned approach,
which will be held in Bangkok,
Thailand.—MNA
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THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR
cussed and officials from CRE-
ATE discussed and explained
about this matter. Deputy Min-
ister for Information U Aung Hla
Tun then explained about calling
tenders to purchase and import
raw materials and discussed on
explaining and sharing printing
technology with printers partici-
pating in the printing works.
Following this, Myanmar
Printers & Publishers Associ-
ation members, PPD Director
General U Aung Myo Myint and
Ministry of Education Director
General U Ko Lay Win discussed
on general matters and Union
surveying schools, paper and ink Minister Dr. Pe Myint delivered a
quality and quality control. closing speech. CREATE project
Afterwards, Deputy Minister is jointly implemented by Minis-
for Education U Win Maw Tun try of Education and JICA, start-
said the quality of printing press ing from May 2014 and the project
is important in school textbook duration is up to 2021 March, it is
quality and this need to be dis- learnt.—MNA
Permanent Secretary
appointed
THE Union Government has appointed Director-General
U Kyaw Min Oo from the Union Minister’s Office, under the
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, to assume
the duties of Permanent Secretary.
Independent Commission of Enquiry
CHAIRPERSON of the Inde- Japan to the United Nations
pendent Commission of En- Ambassador Kenzo Oshima ar-
quiry, former Deputy Foreign rived in Myanmar by air for the
Minister of the Philippines, third time yesterday afternoon.
former Chair and current Rep- They were welcomed at
resentative of the Philippines Yangon International Airport by
to CEDAW, Ambassador Rosa- Director-General of Strategic
rio Manalo and member of the Studies and Training Depart-
commission, former Under-Sec- ment, Daw Kay Thi Soe, Dep-
retary-General for Humani- uty director-general of Ministry
tarian Affairs and Emergen- of Foreign Affairs, U Zaw Tun
cy Relief Coordinator, former Oo and responsible officials.
Permanent Representative of —MNA
Independent Commission of Enquiry chairperson Ambassador
Rosario Manalo and member kenzo Oshima welcomed by officials at
the Yangon International Airport yesterday.  PHOTO: MNA
5 OCTOBER 2018
THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR NATIONAL 3

ROK National, Armed Forces Union Minister attends ISA

renewable energy exhibition
Day celebrated in Nay Pyi Taw
UNION Minister for Electricity
and Energy U Win Khaing at-
tended the 2nd Global Renewable
Energy (RE) – INVEST 2018 con-
ducted by International Solar Al-
liance (ISA) at India Expo Mart,
Greater Noida, New Delhi, India,
on the morning of 3 October.
The event was opened by
Minister of State (IC) for Power
and New & Renewable Ener-
gy H.E. Mr. Raj Kumar Singh
and the First General Assem-
bly of International Solar Alli-
ance commenced at 10 am local
standard time, where sectors
Union Election Commission Chairperson U Hla Thein, Union Ministers, Union Attorney-General, Deputy
Ministers and foreign Ambassadors, together with ROK Ambassador Mr. Lee Sang-hwa and wife, pose for
a documentary photo at the reception to mark the ROK National Day and Armed Forces Day in Nay Pyi
Taw.  PHOTO: MNA
such as Political Initiatives, RE
Powering Small Hydro, Offshore
Wind, Clean Energy, Financing
through Demand Aggregation
and The New Green Revolution
(Bioenergy/Biofuels) were dis-
cussed.
Later in the evening, the
Union Minister and Minis-
ter of Petroleum and Natural
Gas, Minister of Skill Develop-
ment and Entrepreneurship
H.E. Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan
discussed about Myanmar-India
bilateral cooperation, it is learnt.
—MNA

A CEREMONY to commem- Government U Thaung Tun for the attendees.

orate the National Day and
Armed Forces Day of the Re-
public of Korea (ROK) was
held at Hilton Hotel in Nay
Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon.
Union Election Commis-
sion Chairperson U Hla Thein
and wife Daw Aye Thida at-
tended the ceremony.
The ceremony com-
menced with the playing of the
national anthems of Myanmar
and South Korea.
Afterwards, ROK Ambas-
sador to Myanmar Mr. Lee
Sang-hwa and Union Minis-
ter for the Office of the Union
delivered messages of greet-
ings and honors.
Next, Union Minister U
Thaung Tun, Lt-Gen Win Bo
Shein from the Command-
er-in-Chief (Army) office, Am-
bassador Lee Sang-hwa and
Colonel Hwang Sandeok cut
a cake commemorating the
National and Armed Forces
Day of ROK.
The attendees then
watched cultural dances per-
formed by Myanmar and Ko-
rean artistes.
Afterwards, ROK Ambas-
sador and wife hosted dinner
Union Ministers Dr. Pe
Myint, U Ohn Win, Dr. Than
Myint, Dr. Myo Thein Gyi,
U Han Zaw, Nai Thet Lwin,
Union Attorney General U
Tun Tun Oo, Lt-Gen Win Bo
Shein, Nay Pyi Taw Command
Commander Maj-Gen Myint
Maw and their wives, Deputy
Ministers, high ranking Tat-
madaw officers, departmental
officials, foreign Ambassadors
to Myanmar and diplomats,
representatives from Unit-
ed Nations and other invited Union Minister U Win Khaing meets with Minister of State (IC) for Power
guests also attended the cer- and New & Renewable Energy Mr. Raj Kumar Singh in New Delhi, India.  
emony.—MNA PHOTO: MNA

Ministry torches ivory, seized illegal wildlife parts

FROM PAGE-1
At the ceremony held
in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday,
except for a few items to be
displayed at the elephant
museum, to ser ve as a
constant reminder of the
need to be vigilant against the
illegal wildlife trade, all confis-
cated wildlife parts were set
on fire.
Union Minister U Ohn
Win said the ceremony is the
beginning of the end for the
illegal wildlife trade in Myan-
mar, pledging that Myanmar
would end poaching, illegal
hunting, collection and trad-
ing of wildlife.
Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Direc-
tor-General of Forest Depart-
ment, and Myanmar CITES
(Convention on International
Trade of Endangered Fau-
na and Flora) Management
Authority said in a statement
that rare wildlife, includ-
ing Myanmar ’s elephants,
tigers, bears and pangolins
are natural heritage of Myan-
mar, saying that the wildlife
are included and protected
in the list of totally protected
species.
Myanmar developed
policies, laws, r ules and
regulations to ensure the
protection and sustainability of
the country’s rich biodiversity,
wildlife, habitats and ecosys-
tems.
In order to monitor and
effectively combat poaching
and illegal trade of wildlife
plants and animals, the Nation-
al Wildlife Law Enforcement
Task Force was established
in 2016 by the Union Govern- Confiscated elephant ivory burning during a ceremony incinerating wildlife parts in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. 
ment.—MNA PHOTO: MNA
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Disciplinary committee formed to
regulate vehicles, drivers
By Nyein Nyein taken for operating outside the starting from 15 March 2017. and a convoy system was imple-
designated hours, and to state Since there were difficul- mented, said Daw Nilar Kyaw.
A Disciplinary Maintaining the reason why if the announce- ties in flow of traded goods, Adding further to his ques-
Committee will be formed to ment is revoked and operation a convoy system of container tion, U Wai Phyo Han said a
regulate not only trucks but all time is no longer designated. and cargo trucks were used stricter enforcement is needed
vehicles and drivers, said Daw Yangon Region minister at designated times on desig- to ensure that the container
Nilar Kyaw, Yangon Region said arrangements are made nated routes, as per the report and cargo trucks are operating
minister for Electricity, Indus- to form a Disciplinary Main- submitted by Myanmar Con- properly at designated times
try and Transport, in response taining Committee township tainer Trucks Association. This and routes. He also added that
to a question raised by U Wai wise not only to regulate trucks was conducted in coordination careless driving and parking
Phyo Han of Insein Township and drivers but all vehicles and among officials of the associ- by containers and cargo trucks
constituency 2 at the 16th-day drivers. To reduce traffic con- ation and traffic police while are also increasing the traffic
meeting of the seventh regular gestion in Yangon Region, con- actions were taken against any congestion and dangerous con-
session of Second Yangon Re- tainers and cargo trucks were container and cargo trucks op- ditions on the road.
gion Hluttaw, held on 4 October. permitted on the roads from erating outside of the designat- Daw Nilar Kyaw said My-
U Wai Phyo Han asked 9 pm to 6 am starting from 7 ed times and routes. anmar Container Trucks Asso-
whether the earlier announce- December 2016. To increase the Restricting the operating ciation is planning to construct
ment of designating an oper- flow of export/import cargoes, hours of containers and cargo a car park for containers and
ation time for trucks, trailers containers and cargo trucks trucks to night time only creates cargo trucks near Thilawa Port,
and containers is still in place; were permitted on certain a lot of problems for import/ex- in cooperation with Yangon Re-
and if so, why no action is being roads between 1 pm and 3 pm port, and thus a new schedule gion government.
Strict regulations enforced for rooftop
internet tower installations
By Nyein Nyein
ROOFTOP internet towers
are installed only under the
permission of Directorate of
Telecommunications, said
Yangon Mayor U Maung
Maung Soe.
He was responding to
a question raised by Ma-
yangon Township Hluttaw
representative U Yan Shin
at the 15 th-day meeting of
the seventh regular session
of Second Yangon Region
Hluttaw on 3 October. The
question asked which depart-
ment permits the installation
of telephone lines, internet
lines and internet towers of
MPT, Ooredoo, Telenor and
Mytel, the average weights
and which organisation in- Mobile telecom tower is seen in Yangon.  PHOTO: PHOE KHWAR
spets the buildings and the
towers.
Yangon Mayor U Maung notification letters sent to rel- are also checked by the My- Hluttaw representative
Maung Soe said the Direc- evant districts and townships anmar Engineering Council U Yan Shin also pointed out
torate of Telecommunica- are coordinated by communi- certified engineer on whether that even though the 15-point
tions grants permission to cations network extension co- it could withstand the weight of requirement said that the con-
construct the antenna tower. ordination committee under the tower. Application then had sent of all occupants of the top
When installing internet tow- the instruction of the regional to be submitted to the Direc- floor of the building is required
ers to improve the communi- government. torate of Telecommunications for the tower to be installed,
cations network, applications Only after assessments with supporting documents there had been complaints of this
must first be submitted to were made that there are no endorsed by the certified en- being done with one or two oc-
the Directorate of Telecom- objections from the administra- gineer. The Directorate of Tel- cupants’ consent only, and thus
munications. The directorate tive viewpoint, will the Direc- ecommunications also checks assessments need to be made.
then coordinates with Yan- torate of Telecommunications whether the proposed internet The average weight of
gon Region government for issue the work permit for inter- tower meets the 15-point re- an internet tower on rooftops
the relevant companies to net tower installation. quirement for internet tower, ranges from 352 kg to 945 kg,
install the internet towers. Buildings on which the in- published by the directorate, depending on the installed ac-
Systematic assessment of ternet tower will be installed said the Yangon mayor. cessories, it is learnt.
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DWIR, JICA sign grant agreement for
Mandalay port development project
THE Directorate of Water Re-
sources and Improvement of
River Systems (DWIR) and Ja-
pan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA) signed an agree-
ment to provide grant aid of up
to 6.034 billion yen for Mandalay
port development project.
Signing ceremony of Grant
Agreement for Japan-funded
Mandalay Port Development
Project was held at DWIR office
in Yangon yesterday.
Officials from the DWIR
and JICA Myanmar office were
present at the signing event and
officials concerned signed the
grant agreement.
“We will implement this
project in line with JICA’s
guidelines and the procedures
of the Environmental Conser-
vation Department. This port
Officials in Dawei and Myeik townships destroy untaxed bottles of
liquor yesterday.  PHOTO: U KYAW KYAW LAT (IPRD)
Untaxed bottles of
alcohol destroyed
in Dawei
UNTAXED special goods, local-
ly produced bottles of alcohol
were seized in Dawei and Myeik
townships in Taninthayi Region
and destroyed at regional In-
ternal Revenue Department at
8 am yesterday. At the event U
Phyo Win Tun, regional minister
for planning and finance, deliv-
ered opening remarks. Various
alcohol products are included on
special goods list. Those liquor
bottles are locally produced, but
the tax duty labels on them are
fraud. A total of 792 bottles were
plays a vital role in development
of Mandalay Region. I would
like to express appreciation
towards the development do-
nor JICA”, said U Tun Lwin Oo,
director-general of the DWIR.
Feasibility studies were carried
out between August 2013 and
February 2014 near Mandalay
Gawain jetty and Shwehlanbo
monastery. The port location
was confirmed near Shwehlan-
bo monastery.
To implement this project,
compensation for land owners
in the project area will be paid
out within two weeks.
The project includes facili-
ties for equipment procurement
pier, such as container yard,
cargo handling equipment and
recreation area.—Myint Maung
Soe
found affixed with fake excise
stamp. When calculating the
payable tax under the Special
Goods Tax Law, owners of spe-
cial goods should pay according
to the sales price. Sellers should
affix tax seal issued by the In-
ternal Revenue Department.
At the event, U Kyaw Ye
Tun, director of regional In-
ternal Revenue Department,
explained how to differentiate
between the real and fraud
stamp.—U Kyaw Kyaw Lat
(IPRD)
DWIR and JICA Myanmar representatives signing an agreement for Mandalay port development project
yesterday.  PHOTO: MYINT MAUNG SOE
Corn export to China up last month
THE volume of corn export to
China through the Muse gate
was registered at over 74,530
tons in September, which is a
significant rise compared to
August, according to Myanmar
Trade Promotion Organization
(Myantrade).
In August, around 42,137
tons of corn were sent to
China through the Muse bor-
der gate.
At present, corn export
Rice export to China through Muse gate drops last month
RICE and broken rice exports
to China through the Muse bor-
der gate in September drasti-
cally plunged from August’s
export volume, according to
Myanmar Trade Promotion
Organization (Myantrade).
Last month saw exports of
over 69,400 tons of rice and
over 3,440 tons of broken rice
at the Muse gate. In August,
over 87,640 tons of rice and
over 3,510 tons of broken
rice were exported to China
through Muse gate.
Local rice price this year
hit the highest record, com-
pared to the past four years.
Therefore, the export rice
price also went up.
Additionally, Chinese mer-
LOCAL BUSINESS
has been increasing, as both
old stock and newly-produced
fresh maize entered the mar-
ket.
Excess supply of maize
during its season brought
down the market in Septem-
ber.
Additionally, confiscation
by China in recent days is also
a contributing factor for de-
crease in price, as corn trade
is illegitimate after exceeding
chants are observing the mar-
ket to purchase the rice at the
right time. On 3 October, about
45 trucks loaded with over 850
tons of rice entered the Muse
market. It fetched 2,420 Yuan
per ton minimum and 2,740
Yuan maximum, according to
news released by Myantrade.
Some 75 per cent of the
trade between China and My-
anmar is carried out through
Muse which performed the
largest trade among border
checkpoints. It also witnessed
the majority of the country’s
rice exports.
The volumes of rice ex-
ports through the Muse gate
were registered at over 1.2
million tons in the 2014-2015
5
import quota set by China.
On 3 October, Muse gate
witnessed flow of 191 trucks
with an estimated volume of
5,153 tons of corn.
The minimum price was
1,800 Yuan per ton, while the
highest was 1,940 Yuan.
China is the main market
for Myanmar’s corn. It is also
exported to Viet Nam, Malay-
sia, Singapore, the Philippines
and Thailand.—GNLM
FY, over 1.03 million tons in the
2015-2016 FY, over 627,400 tons
in the 2016-2017 FY and over
1 million tons in the 2017-2018
FY. China has set import quo-
tas on some agro products, in-
cluding rice. Tax is exorbitant-
ly high for merchants when
the import volume exceeds the
quota limit, resulting in illegal
rice flow to China.
Therefore, China’s confis-
cation rice in the border areas
often occurrs.
Border trade surpassed
sea trade in rice export, ac-
counting for 56.7 per cent of
the total export. Myanmar’s
rice is shipped to 40 countries
while broken rice is exported
to 15 countries.—GNLM
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THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR

Deputy Minister attends 6th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting

on Disaster Management
THE 6th ASEAN Ministerial
Meeting on Disaster Manage-
ment (AMMDM) and the 7th
Meeting of the Conference of
the Parties to the ASEAN Agree-
ment on Disaster Management
and Emergency Response (COP
to AADMER were held in Pu-
trajaya, Malaysia on 4 October,
and Deputy Minister for Social
Welfare, Relief and Resettlement
U Soe Aung and representatives
from Myanmar were present.
During the meeting and
conference, the ASEAN Minis-
ters openly discussed for pacts
on policies by the ministers, ef-
forts from respective countries
to improve Government-Public
collaboration on the Disaster
Management Work Programme,
reduction of disaster losses in
lives and in the social, econom-
ic and environmental assets by
collaborating of private sectors,
experts team and civil societies,
Foreign ministers at the 6th-AMMDM and 7th ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency
Response in Putrajaya, Malaysia on 4 October 2018.  PHOTO: MNA
accretion funding for disaster
management, coordination on
Emergency Response Opera-
tions and early restoration, up-
grading the ability on disaster
management of private sector
and encouragement on the col-
laboration of private organiza-
tions to facilitate response in
times of disasters.
The meeting was opened by
H.E. Prime Minister of Malaysia
YAB Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
and Secretary-General of ASE-
AN H.E Dato Lim Jock Hoi. The
meeting was chaired by Deputy
Prime Minister of Malaysia YAB
Dato' Seri Wan Azizah Dr. Wan
Ismail and co-chaired by Dep-
uty Minister for Social Welfare,
Relief and Resettlement U Soe
Aung.
The Meeting was attended
by Ministers in charge of disaster
management, Secretary-Gener-
al of ASEAN, representatives
from all ASEAN Member States,
the ASEAN Secretariat, and the
ASEAN Coordinating Centre
for Humanitarian Assistance
on disaster management (AHA
Centre).
The Ministers expressed
confidence for the leadership of
Myanmar as the forthcoming
Chair of the ACDM, the Govern-
ing Board of the AHA Centre,
the COP to AADMER and the
AMMDM in 2019, and looked for-
ward to the 7th AMMDM and the
8th Meeting of the COP to AAD-
MER, scheduled in Myanmar in
2019.—MNA

28,500 Yaba tablets seized in Maungtaw Warning issued to workers

Township, Rakhine State
SECURITY forces arrested two
Bangladesh nationals and a lo-
cal from Maungtaw Township
on a boat in Naf River, Rakhine
State, with Ks 57 million worth
of 28,500 Yaba tablets yesterday
morning.
Security forces were pa-
trolling along the Naf River
in two motorboats when they
found a boat being rowed to-
wards Bangladesh.
The boat was stopped and
searched and Ali Sulihaman,
20, from Maungtaw Township,
Abdul Seidi, 27, and Luban, 18,
from a village south of Teknaf,
Bangladesh, were found with
the Yaba tablets.
Upon investigation, the
Yaba tablets were found to be
owned by Eliyet in Maungtaw
and were being sent to Norbi
Husson in Musoni camp, Bang-
ladesh. Ali Sulihaman was paid
Ks 200,000, while Abdul Seidi
and Luban each received 20,000
12 injured in train derailment in Pyawbwe
TWELVE passengers have been
injured after a train carrying 84
people derailed near Pyawbwe,
Mandalay Region, yesterday.
The Uptrain-3 came off the
tracks yesterday morning near
possessing fake documents
THE Department of Labour
Taka for transporting the Yaba als on a boat. only sends Myanmar workers
tablets. They were caught while to work in Thailand through li-
Ali Sulihaman first carried transporting the Yaba tablets to censed overseas employment
the tablets from Thayet Oat vil- Bangladesh by boat. The police agencies, operating in line with
lage to the mouth of Ywet Nyo are continuing the investigation the MoU system.
Taung creek where he met up to apprehend other suspects Employers in Thailand sub-
with the two Bangladesh nation- related to the case.—MNA mit their call for employment
vacancies to their respective
local labour office, which relays
it to the Thailand Employment
Department. Once the depart-
ment gives approval, the list is
sent to employment agencies
in Thailand who send it over to
their counterpart agencies in
Myanmar. From there, the lists
are taken by the labour agent to
be submitted at the Ministry of
Labour, Immigration and Pop-
ulation.
At this part of the process,
the Committee for the Devel-
opment of Education, Health
and Human Resources scruti-
nizes the list and once approval
Three suspects detained together with seized yaba tablets in Maungtaw is received, the employer from
Township, Rakhine State.  PHOTO: MNA Thailand, or a representative
agent, travels to Myanmar to
sign an employer-employee con-
tract, make an overseas worker
identification card provided that
an entry-visa is obtained from
Yengan Village after leaving accident, which occurred at 9.55 Thailand, and then accompany-
Lebu station in Natmauk Town- am, and transported the injured ing together with the represent-
ship for Pyawbwe, according to to Pyawbwe Township People’s ative to the labour exchange
a local police source. Police, Hospital and remaining pas- office in Myawady Town to send
rescue teams and railway offi- sengers to Pyawbwe Station.— the workers to their place of
cials reached the spot after the GNLM employment.
There is a large proportion
of Myanmar workers contact-
ing labour brokers and then mi-
grate into Thailand to work ille-
gally. This resulted in recurring
arrests of Myanmar migrant
workers in possession of fake
documents.
All Myanmar workers need
to be aware that a passport
alone is not sufficient to work
in Thailand. A visa is required
to stay in Thailand and a letter
of employment is required to
legally work in the country.
There have also been in-
stances where a Myanmar
worker possessing all three
required documents decides
to change jobs but has not
sought or received a letter
of employment from the new
employer, which has resulted
in arrests.
Possession of fake docu-
ments is punishable by Thai-
land’s existing Law 269/13,
which can sentence an impris-
onment term from 1 to 10 years
and a fine from Baht 10,000 to
Baht 200,000.
Myanmar workers seeking
employment in Thailand are
notified to follow the bilateral
MoU agreement between My-
anmar and Thailand and enter
the country legally.—Ministry
of Labour, Immigration and
Population
5 OCTOBER 2018
THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR
YCDC new compensation
policy covers wage labourers
By Nyein Nyein
RESPONDING to a question
raised by U Hla Thein of Tam-
way township constituency 1 at
the 14th-day meeting of the sev-
enth regular session of Second
Yangon Region Hluttaw, held
on 2 October, Yangon Mayor U
Maung Maung Soe said Yangon
City Development Committee
(YCDC) has drawn up a new poli-
cy that provides compensation to
worksite fatalities and injuries for
wage labourers. U Hla Thein was
asking if there were plans to pay
compensation to wage workers
for occupational hazards.
YCDC wage workers were
not compensated when they are
involved in fatal worksite acci-
dents, injured or suffer chronic
illnesses and only receive com-
passionate grant, added U Hla
Thein in his question.
Yangon Mayor U Maung
Maung Soe said wage workers
working in YCDC departments
are not covered by social security
law and rules. Therefore, YCDC
implemented a new policy on 16
March 2015 to provide compen-
Norwegian, Myanmar artists showcase sculptures
DUO Art Exhibition by Norwe-
gian artist Merete Sejersted
Bodtker and Myanmar’s prom-
inent sculptor Sonny Nyein
opened at Beikthano Gallery in
sation to wage workers who are
involved in fatal accidents or are
injured in work sites or are chron-
ically ill and are unable to work.
Compensatory payments are
made after individual cases are
scrutinized under the new policy
of YCDC. Under the new policy,
compensations for wage workers
involved in accident will depend
on the length of their service, said
Yangon mayor. “A wage worker
who had worked in YCDC for a
minimum of three months will
receive compensation if the wage
worker is involved in a work site
accident. If the wage worker’s
service in YCDC is less than
three months, the wage worker
involved in a work site accident
will be given a compassionate
grant,” said U Maung Maung Soe.
From fiscal year 2015-2016 to
date, YCDC has provided com-
pensation to a total of 18 wage
labourers. Ks 4,083,600 was pro-
vided to 11 wage workers who
were hurt in work site accidents,
while families of seven wage
workers involved in fatal work
site accidents were provided with
Ks 142,84,000.
Yangon yesterday.
During the four-day exhi-
bition, the duo have displayed
their sculptures and works on
paper until 7 October.
Human resource: biggest challenge
for private health sector
By May Thet Hnin
LACK of human resources is
the biggest challenge for pri-
vate health care sector, said Dr.
Aye Aye San, general secretary
of Myanmar Private Hospitals’
Association.
“The biggest challenge
we face is the lack of human
resources. Currently, there are
shortage of doctors, nurses and
expert workers. If foreign di-
rect investments (FDIs) flow
into this sector, the challenges
will even become bigger. As
there are insufficient human
resources for local health care
services, entry of FDIs will
mean sharing of the scarce
human resources.”
Private hospitals and clin-
ics are facing the issues of com-
petency in human resources
as well as in technology and
facility, said Dr. Aye Aye San.
“At the moment, there is
no investment of international
standard medical equipment
in private health care sector.
Around 100,000 patients went
Merete Sejersted Bodtker
has showcased her work of Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi portrait sculp-
ture, prints of her mix-media
works and prints of her sculp-
ture works from Norway.
She showcased her work of
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s bust,
which she had donated to the
National League for Democracy
office since last year.
“I exhibited my works out-
side Norway. But, this is the
first time in Myanmar and I am
happy,” said Merete Sejersted
Bodtker.
Merete Sejersted Bodtker
was born in Oslo, Norway, in
NATIONAL
abroad to receive health care.
We need to attract them back”,
she added.
Health care standard is
not the only reason of med-
ical tourism. The world has
become a village and there is
also smooth transportation.
Some people were travelling
for a medical checkup.
“We need to build trust
with such patients and attract
them back. In this case, compe-
tencies are very important. We
can develop medical tourism
through promotion”, she added
further.
Patients also complain
about the waiting time for doc-
tors in the private health care
sector. “Whenever we went to
a specialist in a private hos-
pital or clinic there is a long
waiting time for us to receive
treatment.
At least getting treated
after a long wait is bearable,
because in some cases, the
specialist calls the hospital or
clinic to see how many patients
there are and will not show
Sonny Nyein, left, and Merete Sejersted Bodtker, right.
1956. Her public works can be
found in Norway and Sweden,
as well as in private collections
in the US, Switzerland, Germa-
ny, Sri Lanka, Dubai and Abu
Dhabi.
Sonny Nyein has displayed
five abstract sculptures. Son-
ny Nyein was born in 1949 in
Mandalay. He received his grad-
uation from the Yangon State
School of Fine Arts in 1971, ma-
joring in Sculpture.
While showing an enthusi-
ast to his works of two forms :
one is made of used recycled
cans and another one is empty
iron square, Sonny Nyein trans-
7
up if there are only one or two
patients.
Sometimes they show up
to treat a single patient, but
then the treatment charge in-
creases from the usual Ks 7,000
to Ks 10,000,” said a patient.
On this matter, Dr. Aye Aye
San said 95 percent of special-
ist doctors went on to provide
their service in a private clinic
and/or hospital after complet-
ing their day’s work at gov-
ernment hospitals. Sometimes
they could not reach the clinic
on time because of traffic.
Therefore, clinics appoint
retired doctors at private clin-
ics and hospitals. Private clin-
ics and hospitals cannot ap-
point a foreign doctor because
their salaries are high.
There are over 4,900 clin-
ics, 655 special clinics, 225 pri-
vate hospitals and 1,134 gov-
ernment hospitals in Myanmar.
Myanmar Private Health Care
Service Law was enacted in
2007 and rules were issued in
2014.
lated his works, “rich and poor”.
He also studied Form and
Space concepts in both sculp-
ture and painting from Baji
Aung Soe, icon of the Myanmar
Modern Art and former lecturer
at Rangoon Institute of Tech-
nology.
His early works were made
from scrap metal, with the
subjects ranging from pieces
inspired by traditional myths
to social commentaries. The
multimedia sculptures were of
various sizes.
Beikthano Gallery is located
at 113/3, KabaAye Pagoda Road,
in Yangon. — GNLM
8 OPINION 5 OCTOBER 2018
THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR
5 OCTOBER 2018
THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR OPINION 9

To promote
education Hailing World Teachers' Day (5 October)
By Maha Saddhamma Jotika Dhaja, Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt

standards, raise
quality of teachers T
ODAY, 5 October "There were only a few hard work, he obtained Ph.D
2018, Myanmar joins students at Oxford that time. degree with flying colours.]
with other countries Including me, 7 students. I was In following the good prec-
in celebrating one of the only one, research scholar edent of Saya Gyi U Pe Maung
the auspicious days which the

T
in Pali. The rest were all I.C.S. Tin, the writer held Acariya Puja
ODAY is World Teachers' Day – a UNESCO initiative United Nations Organization has [Indian Civil Service, Highest cum farewell party at Burmese
that celebrates teachers around the world. Every been holding under its auspices. Serviceman under British Colo- Restaurant owned by Daw Mya
year, the United Nations marks October 5 as World We, Myanmar people, have nial Rule] trainees. They were Sein on St. Gile Street, Oxford
Teachers day. not only recognized the selfless studying British Constitution Circus, London. The writer
Held annually since 1994, World Teachers’ Day marks the efforts of teachers in their noble legal system, Administration invited Professor B. R. Pearn
anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO recommen- profession of teaching but also and English culture to become who was Professor of History,
dations concerning the Status of Teachers to raise awareness included them in the Five Cat- accomplished Black English- Rangoon University, and au-
and address the issues pertinent to teachers. egories whom we owe infinite men to serve British Colonial thor of a great book, “History
Myanmar celebrates World Teachers Day every year to gratitude. Government faithfully. Time was of Rangoon". When the writer
remember the teachers for their contribution to society. The Five Categories are: that we finished and passed our performed Acariya Puja by sit-
Today is the day to appreciate teachers and the extraor- (1) The Buddha, the Supreme examinations. So we got togeth- ting on the floor and worshipping Myanmar Daily Weather Report
dinary job they do to teach, support and inspire our children. Teacher; (2) The Dhamma, His er to discuss holding a farewell them with my two hands. Pro- (Issued on Thursday 4 October 2018)
Teachers lie at the heart of quality education on which the Teachings; (3) The Sangha, the party to our teachers. Each of fessor Pearn explained his ex-
future of the country lies. entire Body of Buddhist monks us had some souvenirs from our perience of such pujas when he SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS RECORDED AT 09:30
Raising the capacity of the teachers is a big challenge. To who keep the torch of teaching country—Shan bags, lacquer- was History Professor at Ran- hrs MST: During the past (24) hours, weather has been partly
raise our education standard, we need to raise the quality of and learning in post Buddha wares, smoking pipes, etc. gon University. Lacquerwares, cloudy in Kachin State, rain or thundershowers have been
our teachers. It means we need to struggle a lot. time; (4) Parents, who give birth I interrupted. ‘I, for one, like Shan bags and smoking pipes isolated in Nay Pyi Taw and Chin State, scattered in Lower
We have noticed to us and bring us up; and, (5) to hold Acariya Puja. That's our were parting gifts the writer Sagaing, Bago, Yangon and Ayeyawady regions, Rakhine and
that education de- Teachers who teach us and train way of saying farewell to our presented them. They all were Mon states, fairly widespread in Mandalay, Magway and Tanin-
velopment is most us in good character. teachers’. They all were shocked overjoyed. Myanmar European thayi regions, Eastern Shan and Kayin states and widespread
PHOTO: PHOE KHWAR
Today, we want to important for our
country. We must en-
Every time we say prayer
we begin with paying respects between Husbands and Wives, water pots filled with natural are also followers of different
at my idea. One of them asked
me:
dinners were served. Unfortu- in the remaining regions and states with regionally heavy falls
in Mandalay Region and isolated heavy falls in Lower Sagaing
nately, photo snaps taken that
courage enthusiasm and obeisance to these Five Region and Kayah State. The noteworthy amount of rainfall
acknowledge and in our students and Categories, and when we share
and 5 between Teachers and
Pupils.
scented water and some gifts,
fruits, flowers, snacks and pay
Faiths. But, just as the pupils
who perform puja have only one
‘Ko Maung Tin, you're Chris-
tian, how you would arrange a
evening were destroyed by Nar-
gis storm and rain. recorded were Loikaw (4.14)inches, Phayathonzu (2.64)inches,
the confidence they the merits of good works with Five duties of teachers to respects to teachers, begging common aim — to pay homage Buddhist Acariya Puja?’ When the writer returned to Bawlake (2.48)inches, Kya-in-Seikkyi (2.36)inches, Kyaymone and
thank all our teachers. have. others we always start with Five pupils are: their pardon for any act of dis- to their teachers, the teachers ‘My friend, don't go astray, his home country and rejoined Patheingyi (1.85)inches each, Mingin (1.81)inches, Nawnghkio
Most youths who Categories. ၁။ အတတ္လည္းသင္ respect committed physically, who receive pujas from their Acariya Puja means paying re- his Alma Mater Yangon Univer- (1.77)inches, Sittway (1.69)inches, Taungtha (1.54)inches and
We would like to are in the higher ed- There are many old say- 1.Teach till pupils are verbally or mentally. Teachers pupils have one common aim to spect to Teachers. It is in all sity International Relations De- Mandalay (1.50)inches.
ucation level now are ings to remind us of our credit learned. exclaim in rapture Sadu, Sadu, see their pupils with good char- religions.' partment, the writer went to see BAY INFERENCE: Monsoon is weak over the Andaman Sea
urge our teachers to victims of a weak ed-
ucation system. They
to teachers.
လက္ဦးဆရာမည္ထိုက္စြာ၊ ပုပၸ
၂။ ပဲ့ျပင္ဆုံးမ
2. Admonish pupils for good
Sadu [well done, well done, well
done], your sins are all par-
acter and they are extremely
delighted.
‘But would these Oxford
dons understand it?’
Saya Gyi U Pe Maung Tin now in
his late 70's. The writer told him
and South Bay and weather is partly cloudy elsewhere in the
Bay of Bengal.
need to change the ဆရာ မိနဲ႔ဘ character. doned. FORECAST VALID UNTIL AFTERNOON OF 5 October
continue learning and old habits they have The first teachers at the ၃။ သိပၸံမခ်န္ The second occasion is at
Here, the writer wishes to
share his knowledge and expe-
‘Don't worry. I'll explain it’.
So Acariya Puja was held for
that his precedent of first Acari-
ya Puja at Oxford University was 2018: Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Kachin and
acquired. They need moment of our birth are our 3. Teach pupils science and the beginning of Buddhist Lent rience of Acariya Pujas with the the first time at Oxford University. faithfully followed by the writer Chin States, scattered in Upper Sagaing, Bago, Yangon and
developing themselves to be taught on how parents. technology also. [Rain Retreat] in the month of readers of this highly esteemed When I explained that we owed at LSE London University in Taninthayi regions, Kayin and Mon states and fairly widespread
to obtain education ကန္ကူလက္လွည့္ဆရာ ၄။ ေဘးရန္စီးကာ Waso. On this occasion all lay daily, the Global New Light of boundless gratitude to our teach- 1960. The writer showed him the in the remaining regions and states with isolated heavy falls
and not to give up that is appropriate to The teacher who teaches 4. Protect pupils from dan- and monk pupils pay homage Myanmar, of today's auspicious ers, one Professor retorted, ‘We snap shots taken. Professor B.R. in Lower Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway, Bago and Ayeyawady
the times. you how to handle soft stone gers. to their teachers. Before they issue. are duty bound to teach you. You Pearn explained the meaning of regions. Degree of certainty is (80%).
on the future of our This is a big
challenge our teach-
pencil to write
သင္ဆရာ၊ ျမင္ဆရာ၊ ၾကားဆရာ
၅။ သင္ရာဖုိ႕အပ္
5. Send pupils to suitable
take wa vows [Lenten vows],
monks pay homage to their
The writer used to meet
Sayagyi U Pe Maung Tin, re-
are duty bound to learn. There is
no boundless gratitude.’
Acariya Pujas to the invitees, the
writer told Saya Gyi. He became
STATE OF THE SEA: Sea will be slight to moderate in Myan-
mar waters. Wave height will be about (2 - 5)feet off and along
ers are facing. If we Teacher is a teaching teach- places. teacher monks. The most well- tired first Myanmar Principal of But I explained that teach- Myanmar Coasts.
country. can overcome this er. Five duties of pupils to known and widely practiced is Yangon University, Pali scholar ers are on the same level with
alert and his face beamed with
delight and recalled his memory. OUTLOOK FOR SUBSEQUENT TWO DAYS: Continuation
challenge, we can Your eyes are your seeing teachers are: Acariya Pujas at the end of Lent. and Professor of Oriental Stud- Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha and “Oh, I know him very well. He's of thundery conditions in Southern Myanmar aeras.
be satisfied for our country’s future. We don’t need to wait teachers ၁။ ညီညာဖ်ဖ် The month of Thadinkyut is the ies. At one meeting, we were Parents. So please accept our my friend. How is he? I'd like to FORECAST FOR NAY PYI TAW AND NEIGHBOURING
until the youngsters attending primary schools come of age. Your ears are your hearing 1. Gather in unity. end of Buddhist Rain Retreat. sitting under the shade of trees obeisance. We all worshipped meet him again". AREA FOR 5 October 2018: Isolated rain or thundershowers.
All have the responsibility of overcoming this big challenge to teachers ၂။ ဆုံးမနာယူ Monks are freed from wa vows. on benches on the side of the them, with our two hands When the writer paid obei- Degree of certainty is (100%).
our higher education system in creating educated youths that All mass media today are 2. Listen to teacher's admo- They can go out freely from their Chancellor Road, leading to the clasped together and bowed sance to him with some food FORECAST FOR YANGON AND NEIGHBOURING AREA
would support our country’s development. your teachers. nition. residential monasteries. In this Convocation Hall. from the floor as they sat on stuff and warm clothing brought FOR 5 October 2018: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree
This responsibility lies with the teachers who are gov- သားသမီးမေကာင္း မိဘေခါင္း ၃။ လာမူႀကဳိဆီး month, Acariya Pujas are held "Hey, Maung Khin Maung chairs. Some professors shed from London, Saya Gyi uttered of certainty is (100%).
ernment employees, the teachers, the students and even the တပည့္မေကာင္း ဆရာ့ေခါင္း 3. Welcome teachers' arriv- across the country. Schools, col- Nyunt! I haven’t told you about the tears of extreme delight. They Sadu, Sadu, Sadu. FORECAST FOR MANDALAY AND NEIGHBOURING
private sector. The main responsibility is on the parents. Only If teacher does not show, al. leges, universities, institutes, Acariya Puja, I initiated in Oxford said they had never experienced Now, Saya Gyi U Pe Maung AREA FOR 5 October 2018: Isolated rain or thundershowers.
when parents instill in their children proper mindsets and good you are unsystematic ၄။ ထံႏွီးလုပ္ေကၽြး organizations, governmental de- University way back in 1920?" such kind of culture. So Khin Tin, Professor B.R Pearn, the Degree of certainty is (100%).
values, can the teachers have good support. ဆရာမျပ နည္းမက် 4. Give necessary service partments are active with puja “No Saya Gyi, how was it Maung Nyunt, please take my writer's Professor at LSE Pro-
All need to work together in this for success to be achieved, Parents are responsible for to teachers. activities. possible you held Buddhist cere- good precedent with you when fessor C.W Manning and Ph.D EARTHQUAKE NEWS
and we believe it can be achieved. Because of this belief, we educating and training their ၅။ သင္ေထြးအံရြတ္ Here we witness that not mony in a non-Buddhist country, one day, you may be at one of supervisor Mr. Tunstall were no (Issued at (03:40 ) hours MST)
can say we will succeed. children. They are accountable 5. Learn thoroughly what only Buddhists, but also follow- like UK, and at such a prestig- the English Universities.” [The more. The writer himself is now
Today, we want to acknowledge and thank all our teachers. for their bad character. Teachers teachers teach. ers of other faiths — Christianity, ious Oxford University." writer won state Scholarship a late Octogenarian. In 7 months' A slight earthquake of magnitude (4.2) Richter Scale
We would like to urge our teachers to continue to learning and are responsible for teaching pu- There are three special Islam, Brahmanism, Hinduism, "Yeah, Yeah. I'm glad you and was sent to London Uni- time, he will be 90 years old. with its epicenter inside Myanmar (about (10) miles west of
developing themselves and not to give up on the future of our pils to be learned and good. They occasions on which pupils pay Ancestor worship, Confucian- asked me that question.” versity to work for Ph.D degree With this article may I hail Salin) latitude 20.58°N, longitude 94.49°E, depth (8) kilome-
country. are accountable for bad pupils. homage to their teachers. On ism, Nat worship, etc. — all in Then Sayagyi related his in international Relations at the the World Teachers' Day of 5 ters about (51) miles Southwest of NyaungU seismological
We thank you, teachers, because you can make positive Lord Buddha had pre- New Year’s Day, the day after unity hold and participate in Acariya Puja ceremony at Ox- London School of Economics October 2018. observatory was recorded at (03)hr. (03)min (59)sec MST
difference for our students, our children, the next generation scribed 5 duties and rights be- Thingyan Festival, when pupils Acariya Pujas. The teachers who ford University in 1920 as fol- and Political Sciences. After four on 4 October 2018.
of our country. tween Parents and Children, 5 visit their teachers with earthen receive the pujas from the pupils lows: and a half years of research and
10 WORLD 5 OCTOBER 2018
THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR

Merkel, Netanyahu seek to brush past

differences for Israel talks
JERUSALEM — German
Chancellor Angela Merkel
holds talks with Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu on Thursday as
they seek to publicly brush
past their list of differences
and promote cooperation
between their countries.
The visit by Merkel
and members of her cab-
inet comes as part of Ger-
man-Israeli government
consultations held regu-
larly, though the last one
in 2017 was postponed, with
scheduling conflicts cited
as the official reason.
There were reports
however that Merkel was
unhappy with a law passed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pose for
then related to Israeli set- photographers between meetings in Jerusalem, on 4 October, 2018.   PHOTO: AFP
tlement building in the oc-
cupied West Bank. seeking to convince Euro- hit out at what he calls the Despite those issues
There has been no pean countries to follow US EU’s “absolutely crazy” and others, both sides seem
shortage of controversy President Donald Trump’s demands of Israel, such as determined to have the visit
ahead of this week’s visit. lead and withdraw from the those related to his coun- run smoothly.
Last week at the UN Iran nuclear deal. try’s occupation of Pales- Germany says the
General Assembly, Net- Germany, like the oth- tinian territory. discussions will focus
anyahu accused Europe er signatories to the hard- As a counterweight, on economic ties, inno-
of “appeasement” of Iran, fought deal, has sought to he has sought sympathetic vation and technology,
a word evoking Europe- keep it alive, saying it is ears within the EU among while noting that the
an capitals’ reluctance to preventing Iran from ob- countries whose leaders’ government-to-govern-
stand up to Adolf Hitler in taining nuclear weapons nationalist stances have ment consultations have
the run-up to World War II. for now. been a thorn in Brussels’ been in place for 10 years.
Netanyahu has been Netanyahu has also side, including Hungary. —AFP

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the State of Delaware and having its registered office at
Number One General Mills Boulevard, Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55426, United States of America is the owner
and proprietor of the following Trademark:

Reg. No. 4/3741/2012(9.4.2012) Reg. No. 4/4482/2012 (30.5.2012)

In respect of “preserved, dried, cooked, frozen and canned
fruits and vegetables; canned soup, fruits preserves,
packaged preparations made from potatoes; meat
products; preserved, canned or frozen prepared meals
consisting principally of meat and/or cheese and
vegetables combined with rice, pasta or potatoes” in class
29; and
“flour; flour based mixes for cakes, brownies, quick breads
desserts; yeast breads, ready to eat pastries and
confections; canned frosting (icing) for cakes, pizza,
refrigerated biscuits, pancake and waffle mix; syrup for
pancakes, flour confectionery; preparations made from
cereals for food for human consumption, frozen pancakes;
frozen waffles, refrigerated dough products with and
without filling, frozen dough products with and without
fillings” in Class 30.
Fraudulent or unauthorised use, or actual or colourable
imitation of the said mark shall be dealt with according to
law.
Daw La Min May, H.G.P
For The Pillsbury Company, LLC,
C/o Kelvin Chia Yangon Ltd.,
Level 8A, Union Financial Centre (UFC),
Corner of Mahabandoola Road and Thein Phyu Road,
Botahtaung Township, Yangon,
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
th
Dated 5 October 2018 lmm@kcyangon.com
In respect of “preserved, dried, cooked, frozen and canned
fruits and vegetables; canned soup, fruits preserves,
packaged preparations made from potatoes; meat
products; preserved, canned or frozen prepared meals
consisting principally of meat and/or cheese and
vegetables combined with rice, pasta or potatoes” in class
29; and
“flour; flour based mixes for cakes, brownies, quick breads
desserts; yeast breads, ready to eat pastries and
confections; canned frosting (icing) for cakes, pizza,
refrigerated biscuits, pancake and waffle mix; syrup for
pancakes, flour confectionery; preparations made from
cereals for food for human consumption, frozen pancakes;
frozen waffles, refrigerated dough products with and
without filling, frozen dough products with and without
fillings” in Class 30.
Fraudulent or unauthorised use, or actual or colourable
imitation of the said mark shall be dealt with according to
law.
Daw La Min May, H.G.P
For The Pillsbury Company, LLC,
C/o Kelvin Chia Yangon Ltd.,
Level 8A, Union Financial Centre (UFC),
Corner of Mahabandoola Road and Thein Phyu Road, 09251022355,
Botahtaung Township, Yangon,
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar. 09974424848
th
Dated 5 October 2018 lmm@kcyangon.com
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THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR WORLD 11

US, China look on as Putin seeks India arms deals

NEW DELHI — Rus-
sian President Vladimir
Putin arrives in India on
Thursday looking to tie up
billions of dollars in arms
deals with Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi, likely
irking the US, China and
Pakistan in one fell swoop.
The Kremlin said be-
fore the two-day visit that
the “key feature” would be
the signing of a $5-billion
deal for the advanced S-400
air defence system, despite
US sanctions against coun-
tries buying Russian de-
fence hardware.
India will ask the
United States for a spe-
cial waiver for the pur-
chase — as discussed by
their defence and foreign
ministers in New Delhi last
month — but Washington
has signalled there is no
guarantee it will accede.
The US is in a difficult
position as it seeks to con-
tain China through better
ties with India, which like
Washington has been un-
nerved by Beijing’s grow-
ing assertiveness.
Washington and New
Delhi announced plans last
month for joint military
drills in 2019, and agreed
on the exchange of sensi-
tive military information.
But Russia remains
India’s main arms supplier,
and a string of new deals
with the Asian giant would
be a major win for Moscow
— and a big snub to the US.
Putin and Modi, who
appear to enjoy a personal
rapport, are also likely to
discuss a deal for four Kri-
vak-class frigates worth $2
billion and 200 light utility
Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to seal a $5-bn deal to sell the S-400 air defence
system to India.  PHOTO: AFP
Ka-226 helicopters pegged
at $1 billion.
India and Russia have
already concluded an In-
ter-Governmental Agree-
ment for the choppers, 60
of which would be built in
Russia and the rest in In-
dia.
“Russia is a time-test-
ed friend. I am really glad
some spine has finally been
shown by India,” R.R. Sub-
ramanian, a Delhi-based
strategic affairs analyst,
told AFP.
“It’s about time we...
showed that we are not go-
ing to be pushed around by
Washington.”
Experts say India
needs the sophisticated
S-400 system to fill critical
gaps in its defence capabil-
ities, in view of China’s rise
and perceived threats from
Pakistan, against whom In-
dia has fought three wars.
Indian Air Force Chief
Birender Singh Dhanoa
said on Wednesday that
the S-400 and the 36 Ra-
fale fighter jets purchased
from France — a 2016
deal mired in political
controversy — represent
a “booster dose” for the
country.— AFP

Pentagon says castor Turkey parliament extends mandate for

seeds, not ricin, in
suspect packages
WASHINGTON (United
States) — Suspicious
packages sent to the Pen-
tagon this week contained
castor seeds, from which
ricin can be derived, but not
the deadly poison itself, an
official said on Wednesday.
The Pentagon’s mail
screening facility on Mon-
day had intercepted at least
two packages — addressed
to Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis and Navy chief Ad-
miral John Richardson —
that authorities suspected
to have contained ricin.
“According to our
preliminary analysis, the
substance was castor
seeds, from which ricin is
derived,” Pentagon spokes-
woman Dana White said,
noting that the matter
remained under FBI in-
vestigation. All mail at the
Pentagon was briefly quar-
antined when the packages
were uncovered. No one
was hurt. — AFP
troop deployment in Syria, Iraq
ANKARA (Turkey) —Turk- in October 2014, has been said it was “essential for will not allow terror groups
ish parliament on Wednes- renewed every year since Turkey’s national security to shelter or be trained in
day approved a motion to then. It allows military ac- to take all necessary meas- our country’s southern
extend the deployment of tion in Turkey’s two south- ures ... in the face of any borders, or stage attacks
troops in neighbouring ern neighbours against Is- threats.” against our country uti-
Syria and Iraq for another lamic State (IS) extremists IsmetYilmaz, head of lising the instable politi-
year, the official Anadolu and other groups deemed parliament’s defence com- cal situation in Iraq and
news agency reported. by Ankara to be terror or- mittee, said there would Syria,” Yilmaz was quot-
The mandate, first ganisations. be no let-off in Turkey’s ed as saying by Anadolu.
approved by parliament The approved motion fight against terror. “We — AFP
TRADEMARK CAUTION
General Mills, Inc., a company incorporated in the State
of Delaware and having its registered office at Number
One General Mills Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minnesota
55426, United States of America is the owner and
proprietor of the following Trademark:

TRADEMARK CAUTION
General Mills, Inc., a company incorporated in the State
of Delaware and having its registered office at Number
One General Mills Boulevard, Minneapolis, MN 55426,
United States of America is the owner and proprietor of the
following Trademarks:
GENERAL MILLS
Reg. No. 4/4484/2012 (24.5.2012)
In respect of “Packaged ready-to-eat fruit based snacks;
Packaged main meal mixes having a vegetable base;
Packaged dehydrated potatoes; Dessert mixes consisting

FRUIT BY THE FOOT

Reg. No. 4/6106/2015 (13.5.2015)
In respect of “Fruit-based snack foods” in Class 29.
primarily of fruit based filling mixes; vegetable protein
products” in Class 29; and
“Processed cereal-based food to be used as a breakfast
food, snack for or ingredient for making other foods;
Cereal-derived ready-to-eat food bars; Cereal-derived

BISQUICK ready-to-eat snacks; Flour; Baking mixes; Brownie mixes;

Reg. No. 4/6104/2015 (13.5.2015)
In respect of “Baking mixes, pancake mix, waffle mix, and
biscuit mix” in Class 30.
Fraudulent or unauthorised use or actual or colourable
imitation of the Marks shall be dealt with according to law.
Daw La Min May, H.G.P
For General Mills, Inc.,
C/o Kelvin Chia Yangon Ltd.,
Level 8A, Union Financial Centre (UFC),
Corner of Mahabandoola Road and Thein Phyu Road,
Botahtaung Township, Yangon,
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
th
Dated 5 October 2018 lmm@kcyangon.com
Cookie mixes; Pancake mixes; Main meal mixes have
either a cereal base or a pasta base; Packaged noodle
based side-dish mixes” in Class 30.
Fraudulent or unauthorised use, or actual or colourable
imitation of the said mark shall be dealt with according to
law.
Daw La Min May, H.G.P
For General Mills, Inc.,
C/o Kelvin Chia Yangon Ltd.,
Level 8A, Union Financial Centre (UFC),
Corner of Mahabandoola Road and Thein Phyu Road,
Botahtaung Township, Yangon,
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
th
Dated 5 October 2018 lmm@kcyangon.com

4” X 2 columns x UD$ 500 = US$ 400 5” x 2 col x 50 = US$ 500

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THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR

Japan to host Mekong summit on Tuesday

TOKYO — Prime Minis-
ter Shinzo Abe will chair
a summit next Tuesday
attended by the leaders
of Cambodia, Laos, Thai-
land, Myanmar and Viet
Nam with enhanced con-
nectivity in the region top-
ping the agenda, the top
government spokesman
said Thursday.
Tokyo will promote
quality infrastructure de-
velopment in the South-
east Asian countries along
the Mekong River to real-
ize a “free and open” In-
do-Pacific region based
on a rules-based order
and free trade, Japanese
officials said.
“We will adopt new
guidelines on Japan-Me-
kong cooperation and
hope to strengthen re-
lations with the region
even further,” Chief Cab-
inet Secretary Yoshihide
Suga said at a press
conference. Deepening
cooperation and promot-
ing the integration of the
Mekong region has been
a priority for Japan as the
area located between In-
dia and China, and facing
the South China Sea, is
strategically important
when Beijing is increasing
its clout in the region, the
officials said.
Following up on the
current strategy adopted
in 2015, the leaders are
expected to adopt a new
one aimed at improving
connectivity in the region
through infrastructure
building.
Demand for infra-
structure investment
in developing Asia is
estimated at $26 trillion
between 2016 and 2030,
or $1.7 trillion per year,
according to the Asian
Development Bank. To
meet the growing needs,
policymakers and experts
have called for more pri-
vate-sector investment.
The region is seen
as a promising market
for Japanese companies
and economic growth in
the five countries from the
Association of Southeast
Asian Nations has made
development needs more
complex and diversified.
Tokyo’s official de-
velopment assistance
has been intended to
enhance connectivity by
building roads and other
infrastructure to facilitate
flows of goods, services
and people. Technical
training and human re-
sources development are
also part of its assistance.
In Viet Nam and My-
anmar, the introduction
of e-customs systems
has helped shorten the
time required for cus-
toms clearance to a few
seconds from 15 minutes,
according to the Japanese
Foreign Ministry.
A project is also
under way to develop a
facility for containers at
an international port in
Cambodia’s Sihanoukville.
When completed, the vol-
ume of containers handled
at the port is expected to
double from 2015.
Before Tokyo takes
over the Group of 20
presidency next year, it
also hopes to highlight
its resolution in the Ja-
pan-Mekong summit to
help achieve UN Sustain-
able Development Goals,
which cover 17 objectives
to be achieved by 2030
in areas such as climate
change, disaster preven-
tion and education, the
Japanese officials said.
On the sidelines of the
summit, a series of bilat-
eral meetings between
Abe and the Mekong lead-
ers are being arranged,
according to the minis-
try.—Kyodo News

Wife of ex-Malaysian leader charged with money laundering

KUALA LUMPUR (Malay-
sia)— Rosmah Mansor, the
luxury-loving wife of Malay-
sia’s former prime minister,
was Thursday charged with
money laundering linked to
a multi-billion-dollar scan-
dal that helped bring down
his government.
The 66-year-old plead-
ed not guilty to 17 charges
of money laundering at a
court complex where her
husband Najib Razak was
also making a separate
appearance in connection
with the alleged plunder of
state funds.
Rosmah was allowed
to post bail of two million
ringgit ($483,365) and or-
dered to surrender her
passport. She was also
barred from contacting
any witness.
P rosecutors had
sought 10 million ringgit in
bail, citing the seriousness
of the charges, which could
result in Rosmah having to
spend the rest of her life in
prison.
Lead prosecutor Gopal
Sri Ram told the court that
Rosmah “had approached
a witness with a request
to give a statement in her
favour”.
In the first charge
sheet, prosecutors said
“you engaged directly in a
transaction that involves
proceeds of unlawful ac-
tivity” in violation of laws
Rosmah Mansor (top C), wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, is escorted by against money laundering.
police personnel during her arrival at court in Kuala Lumpur on 4 October, 2018. PHOTO: AFP Prosecutor Gopal told
court Rosmah’s alleged of-
fences were “very serious”
as he justified the high bail
amount sought. Defence
lawyers sought bail of
250,000 ringgit.
Rosmah, wearing an
orange dress and scarf, ar-
rived under heavy security
at the court complex after
being arrested Wednes-
day and held overnight at
the headquarters of the
country’s anti-corruption
agency, which had subject-
ed her to three rounds of
questioning.
At court on Thursday,
she sat quietly in the dock
and did not look at the
gallery, where her family
members were seated.
—AFP

Indonesia quake kids traumatised as INVITATION FOR TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL PROPOSALS
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK and IRRIGATION

rescuers race against clock DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

PALU (Indonesia) — Many
children have been sepa-
rated from their families
and are “in shock and
traumatised” following
Indonesia’s devastat-
ing quake-tsunami, aid
workers said Thursday,
as much-needed supplies
trickled in to shattered
communities.
A total of 1,411 people
have been confirmed dead
and over 2,500 injured after
the monster earthquake
struck Friday sending de-
structive waves barrelling
into Sulawesi island.
The disaster reduced
buildings in the seaside
city of Palu to rubble but,
with transport links badly
affected, aid has been slow
to arrive and looting has
broken out.
While rescuers contin-
ue to comb through the ru-
ins of destroyed buildings,
hope is fading that anyone
will be found alive under
the rubble. Authorities say
over 100 people are still un-
accounted for.
As officials scrambled
to deal with survivors’ ba-
sic needs and foreign aid
groups rushed to reach
the disaster zone, atten-
tion focused on the huge
number of children left
orphaned or separated
from their families. Save
the Children said many
youngsters were sleeping
on the streets among ru-
ins in Palu, and authorities
urgently needed to identify
and reunite them with their
relatives.“It’s hard to im-
agine a more frightening
situation for a child,” said
Zubedy Koteng, the group’s
child protection adviser,
who is in the city.—AFP
SELECTION OF A CONSULTING FIRM FOR THE
AUDIT OF THE ITALIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
NATIONAL COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
The Department of Rural Development (DRD) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation
(MOALI) is currently implementing the National Community Driven Development Project (NCDDP). The Italian
Government, through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation contributes in the funding of this project
through a Soft Loan for the scaling up of the NCDDP and a Debt-for-Development Swap Agreement. DRD intends
to apply part of the funding by the Italian Government hire the services of a specialized audit firm.
The main mission of the audit firm is to audit the use of the funds of both the Soft Loan Agreement and the
Debt-For-Development Agreement. This assignment includes 5 separate audits reports between the start of the
assignment up to and including 2020.The maximum available budget for this assignment is two hundred and two
million five hundred thousand Myanmar Kyat (MMK) 202,500,000 (net of taxes).
All Myanmar based affiliates and subsidiaries of International Firms specialized in financial audit and accredited
by the International Federation of Accountants can obtain the Request for Proposals including detailed Terms of
Reference in electronic format from the address below.
The deadline for submission of the Technical and Financial Proposals is 40 calendar days after publication of
this advertisement, at 10:00am, DRD premises, Building 36, Nay Pyi Taw. A clarification meeting will be held
not later than 20 calendar days after publication of this advertisement.
Address for more information and request for an electronic copy of the Request for Proposals:
U Kyaw Swa Aung
Procurement and Logistics Director
Department of Rural Development
Office No.(36), Nay Pyi Taw, Republic of the Union of Myanmar
e-mail ksaung@ncddpmyanmar.org, unioncddprocurement@gmail.com
telephone +95-673418632
5 OCTOBER 2018
THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR ENVIRONMENT 13

Europe fires to worsen even if climate goals met
PARIS — Even reaching
the most optimistic goals
in the Paris climate treaty
will still increase the area
of southern Europe devas-
tated by forest fires each
year by at least 40 percent,
researchers warned on
Tuesday.
Following two years of
often deadly blazes across
Portugal, Spain, southern
France and Greece, sci-
entists at the University of
Barcelona said more wood-
land areas could be lost to
the flames if the targets laid
out in the 2015 climate deal
were missed.
The agreement aims
to limit global temperature
increases to “well below”
2.0 degrees Celsius — and
to 1.5°C if at all possible.
In the first study of
its kind, the team tested
computer models of how
much worse fires would get
if global temperatures were
to rise 1.5°C, 2°C, or 3°C by
the end of the century.
“It’s relevant because
there are a lot of fires in
this area, for instance, in
Greece this year or last
summer in Portugal,” Mar-
In July, nearly 100 people perished in blazes at coastal resorts near Athens, the country’s
worst fire.  PHOTO: AFP
co Turco, from the universi-
ty’s Department of Applied
Physics and lead study au-
thor told AFP. “These are
examples of things to come
in the future.”
Turco and the team
found that the area of
southern Europe lost
each year to fire would in-
crease between 40-54 per
cent, even if temperature
rises were limited to 1.5°C
— the most ambitious goal
in all climate change mit-
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF
THE UNION OF MYANMAR
MINISTRY OF ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY
NATIONAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT
SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE
Date : 05th October, 2018
Invitation for Bids
IDA, Credit No : 5727-MM
Contract Title : Installation of Distribution Lines and
Transformers for Bago (West) and
Ayeyarwaddy for National Electrification
Project
Reference No : MOEE-NEP/C1-W7/18 & MOEE-NEP/
C1-W8/18
1. The Republic of the Union of Myanmar has received
financing from the World Bank towards the cost of the National
Electrification Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds
towards payments under the contract for Installation of
Distribution Lines and Transformers MOEE-NEP/C1-W7/18
for Bago (West) and MOEE-NEP/C1-W8/18 for Ayeyarwaddy.
2. The Ministry of Electricity and Energy now invites sealed bids
from eligible bidders for Installation of Distribution Lines and
Transformers MOEE-NEP/C1-W7/18 for Bago (West) and
MOEE-NEP/C1-W8/18 for Ayeyarwaddy in the following
locations.
The number and identification of lots comprising this installation
bidding
MOEE-NEP/ C1-W7 /18 process for Bago (West) is:
Lot 1: Pyay District - 59 villages
Lot 2: Pyay District - 95 villages
Lot 3: Thayarwady District - 83 villages
igation efforts. “1.5°C is by as much as 187 percent Lot 4: Thayarwady District - 47 villages
really ambitious... but it’s as climate change-induced Lot 5: Thayarwady District - 57 villages
Lot 6: Thayarwady District - 69 villages
not physically impossible,” droughts produce more Lot 7: Thayarwady District - 69 villages
said Turco. Were tempera- combustible material. Lot 8: Thayarwady District - 41 villages
tures to climb 2°C above the Southern Europe cur- Lot 9: Thayarwady District - 70 villages
The number and identification of lots comprising this installation
preindustrial benchmark, rently loses around 4,500 bidding
the area destroyed by fire square kilometres — three MOEE-NEP/ C1-W8/18 process for Ayeyarwaddy is:
was projected to increase times the area of Greater Lot 1: Pathien District - 44 villages
Lot 2: Pathien District - 89 villages
between 62-87 percent, London — each year to Lot 3: Pathien District - 72 villages
and for 3°C it could grow fire.—AFP Lot 4: Hinthada District - 72 villages
Lot 5: Hinthada District - 49 villages
Lot 6: Hinthada District - 42 villages
TRADEMARK CAUTION Lot 7: Maupin District - 48 villages
General Mills, Inc., a company incorporated in the State Lot 8: Maupin District - 73 villages
of Delaware and having its registered office at Number Lot 9: Myaungmya District - 52 villages
One General Mills Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minnesota Lot 10: Pyapon/ Labutta District - 71 villages
55426, United States of America is the owner and 3. Bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive
proprietor of the following Trademark: Bidding procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Guidelines:

INVITATION TO OPEN TENDER
Sealed tenders are invited by Department of Medical Services,
Ministry of Health and sports for the supply of Medical Equipments for
Yangon Children Hospital and Sittwe General Hospital by Donation of
Government of Republic of India.
Tender documents are available during office hours at the
Procurement and Supply Division, Department of Medical Services,
office No (4), Ministry of Health and Sports Commencing from
(8.10.2018).
Sealed bids are to be submitted to the office, not later than
(5-11-2018) 15:00 hour, after which no bid will be accepted. No telegraph/
telex proposal will be accepted.
For detail information please contact the phone No. 067-3411510,
067-3411544, Procurement and Supply Division Office, Department of
Medical Services, Ministry of Health and Sports.
Tender Receiving and Evaluation Committee
Ministry of Health and Sports
CLAIM’S DAY NOTICE
M.V EVER ALLY VOY. NO. (0261-570W/E)
Consignees of cargo carried on M.V EVER ALLY
VOY. NO. (0261-570W/E) are hereby notified that the
vessel will be arriving on 5-10-2018 and cargo will be
discharged into the premises of H.P.T where it will lie
at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the
byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am
to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claim’s Day now
declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo
from the Vessel.
No claims against this vessel will be admitted after
the Claims Day.
SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT
MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY
AGENT FOR: M/S EVERGREEN SHIPPING
LINE
Phone No: 2301185
TRIX
Reg. No. 4/4486/2012 (25.5.2012)
In respect of “Fruit based snack foods” in Class 29.
Fraudulent or unauthorised use, or actual or colourable
imitation of the said mark shall be dealt with according to
law.
Daw La Min May, H.G.P
For General Mills, Inc.,
C/o Kelvin Chia Yangon Ltd,
Level 8A, Union Financial Centre (UFC),
Corner of Mahabandoola Road & Thein Phyu Road,
Botahtaung Township, Yangon,
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
th
Dated 5 October 2018 lmm@kcyangon.com
3.5” × 2 columns × USD 50= USD 350
CLAIM’S DAY NOTICE
M.V BLPL TRUST VOY. NO. (1821N/S)
Consignees of cargo carried on M.V BLPL TRUST
VOY. NO. (1821N/S) are hereby notified that the vessel
will be arriving on 5-10-2018 and cargo will be discharged
into the premises of A.I.P.T where it will lie at the
consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws
and conditions of the Port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am
to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claim’s Day now
declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo
from the Vessel.
No claims against this vessel will be admitted after
the Claims Day.
SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT
MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY
AGENT FOR: M/S BLPL SHIPPING LINE
Phone No: 2301185
Procurement of Goods, Works and Non-Consulting Services under
IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers
(“Procurement Guidelines”), and is open to all eligible bidders as
defined in the Procurement Guidelines. In addition, please refer to
paragraphs 1.6 and 1.7 setting forth the World Bank’s policy on
conflict of interest.
4. Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from
Project Management Office (National Electrification Project),
Project Manager and nep.pmomoep@gmail.com] and inspect the
bidding documents during office hours [09:30 to 16:00 hours] at
the address given below.
5. A complete set of bidding documents in English may be
obtained free of charge by interested eligible bidders upon the
submission of a written application to the address below. The
Bidding Documents will be issued through email only.
6. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 7th
November, 2018, (10:00 A.M) - Myanmar Time. Electronic
bidding will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids
will be publicly opened in the presence of the bidders’ designated
representatives and anyone who choose to attend at the address
below.
7. All bids must be accompanied by “Bid-Security”
8. The address (es) referred to above is (are):
Attention: Project Manager
Project Management Office (National Electrification
Project)
Office Building No.27, Ministry of Electricity and Energy
City: Nay Pyi Taw /ZIP Code: 15011
Country: The Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Telephone: +95 67 3431175
Facsimile number: +95 67 3431176
Electronic mail address: nep.pmomoep@gmail.com
14 SOCIAL
Dying of cancer, quake-hit
Indonesia’s disaster spokesman
Nugroho battles on
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s disas-
ter agency spokesman is fighting
a daily battle to update the world
24/7 on the latest developments
in a deadly quake-tsunami, de-
spite his own impending date
with death from terminal cancer.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho,
known affectionately as Pak
Topo (Mr Topo), is the face of
the government’s communi-
cation efforts to get word out
on the devastating crisis on
Sulawesi island that has killed
over 1,400 people.
The 48-year-old refuses
to pass the torch, dragging
himself to daily press brief-
ings, taking reporters’ calls
and communicating on social
media at a frantic pace, even
as he “feels weaker every day”
from Stage IV lung cancer.
“I can’t lie about my
physical condition—the can-
cer has spread to other parts
of my body and it’s weak-
ened my body,” he said in a
heart-wrenching message to
reporters on social media this
week.
“I apologise if I cannot re-
spond to every question from
journalists, my friends. If I was
healthy, I would surely do it no
matter what.”
Pale and visibly thinner,
Einstein’s ‘God letter’ to go on sale for $1mn
NEW YORK (United
States)—A handwritten letter
from Albert Einstein about his
thoughts on God, religion and
his search for meaning is to
go on sale in New York, valued
at up to $1.5 million, Christie’s
said Wednesday.
Written a year before the
legendary physicist died in
1955, his name synonymous
with genius, Einstein writes in
German from Princeton, New
Jersey to German philosopher
Eric Gutkind.
“The word God is for me
nothing but the expression and
product of human weaknesses,
the Bible a collection of vener-
able but still rather primitive
legends,” writes the physicist,
best known for his theory of
relativity.
Nugroho got grim news in January that he was dying and might have as little as a year to live. PHOTO: AFP
Nugroho got the grim news
in January that he was dying
and might have as little as a
year to live.
Nugroho has reportedly
promised his wife to slow down
his work schedule but he is
showing few signs of easing
up in a job that has made him
a household name in disas-
ter-prone Indonesia.
He managed to get out a
“No interpretation, no
matter how subtle, can (for
me) change anything about
this.”
The one-and-a-half-page
letter will go on sale on Decem-
ber 4, estimated by Christie’s
to fetch between $1 million and
$1.5 million.
The letter was previous-
ly offered at auction in 2008,
bought by a private collector
for $404,000, Christie’s said.
“It is one of the definitive
statements in the religion vs
science debate,” says Peter
Klarnet, senior specialist in
books and manuscripts at the
auction house.
The son of secular Ashke-
nazi Jews and forced to flee
Germany after Adolf Hitler
took power, Einstein did not
200-word update on a deadly
landslide back in February
from his hospital bed, local
media reported.
Then in August, he was
sending out reports on a dead-
ly quake disaster on Lombok
island, next to Bali, minutes
after finishing a chemotherapy
session. Nugroho, who has a
doctorate in natural resources
and the environment, took the
exclude Judaism from his cri-
tique.
“For me the unadulterat-
ed Jewish religion is, like all
other religions, an incarnation
of primitive superstition,” he
writes to Gutkind.
“And the Jewish people
to whom I gladly belong, and
in whose mentality I feel pro-
foundly anchored, still for me
does not have any different
kind of dignity from all other
peoples.
“As far as my experience
goes, they are in fact no bet-
ter than other human groups,
even if they are protected from
the worst excesses by a lack
of power. Otherwise I cannot
perceive anything ‘chosen’
about them.”
Last October, a note that
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job eight years ago in a bid to
combine his education with
a love of writing, he told the
Jakarta Post earlier this year.
“Doctors told me that with
chemotherapy and radiation,
I probably have one to three
years left,” he was quoted as
saying.“Illness or death is in
God’s hands, but while I’m still
alive I still want to do my best
to serve others.”—AFP
Einstein had given a courier
in Tokyo briefly describing his
theory on happy living sold
at auction in Jerusalem for
$1.56 million, Winner’s auction
house said.
“While Einstein letters
and manuscripts appear with
some frequency at auction,
those of great importance
and significance do not,” said
Klarnet.
“In the broadest sense, it
is similar to Einstein’s 1939
letter to (US president) F.D.R.
warning of German efforts to
build the bomb that we sold for
$2 million in 2002,” he added.
The letter, already been
shown in Shanghai, goes on
public view in New York from
30 November to 3 December,
Christie’s said.—AFP
5 OCTOBER 2018
Cell networks
disrupted
after first
presidential
alert message
test in US
WASHINGTON — For sev-
eral hours, subscribers of
several cell networks were
unable to access their net-
work after receiving the
first ever presidential alert
on Wednesday, local reports
said.
The unexpected outage
began at around 11:21 am.
Pacific Time (1821 GMT),
about two minutes after
the inaugural test of the Na-
tional Wireless Emergency
Integrated Public Alert and
Warning System, which is
run by the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency
(FEMA).
“The presidential alert
went out and after that I
lost all Internet, Gmail,
apps. Everything stopped
working,” Sarah Mendivel, a
medical researcher at Seat-
tle Children’s Hospital, told
the Seattle Times Wednes-
day afternoon.
Soon after the outage,
an AT&T spokesperson
told the Seattle Times that
the problem had been ad-
dressed and that it had not
been related to the presi-
dential text.
It is the first nationwide
test of the system built by
the federal government and
cell phone carriers to warn
Americans of an emergen-
cy, like a terror attack or a
widespread disaster.
“The test will assess
the operational readiness
of the infrastructure for
distribution of a national
message and determine
whether improvements are
needed,” read a statement
from FEMA ahead of the
alert test.
The alert went out to
nearly every smart phone
in the United States that was
turned on and there was no
opt-out.
Originally scheduled
for 20 September, the test
was postponed due to on-
going response efforts
to Hurricane Florence.
—Xinhua
5 OCTOBER 2018
THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR
‘Darwin in a test tube’: Trio wins Nobel for harnessing evolution
STOCKHOLM (Sweden)—US
scientists Frances Arnold and
George Smith and British re-
searcher Gregory Winter won
the Nobel Chemistry Prize on
Wednesday for applying the
principles of evolution to devel-
op proteins used in everything
from new biofuels to the world’s
best-selling drug.
Arnold, just the fifth wom-
an to clinch chemistry’s most
prestigious honour since Marie
Curie was honoured in 1911, won
one half of the nine million Swed-
ish kronor (about $1.01 million
or 870,000 euros) award, while
Smith and Winter shared the
other half.
“The 2018 Nobel Laureates
in Chemistry have taken con-
trol of evolution and used it for
purposes that bring the greatest
benefit to humankind,” the Swed-
ish Royal Academy of Sciences
said.
Life on Earth exists because
over the past 3.7 billion years
organisms have adapted to their
NASA skeptical on sabotage
theory after mystery ISS leak
WASHINGTON(United States)—
NASA expressed doubts Wednes-
day over a theory floated in Rus-
sia that a tiny hole that caused
an air leak on the International
Space Station was the result of
sabotage.
The breach detected on Au-
gust 29-30 in a Russian space craft
docked at the orbiting station was
not the result of a manufacturing
defect, according to the Russian
space agency, which says it is in-
vestigating the possibility that it
was drilled maliciously.
But NASA, the US space
agency, countered in a statement
that ruling out defects “does not
necessarily mean the hole was
created intentionally or with
mal-intent.”
Russian space agency Ro-
NASA and its Russian counterpart Roscosmos “are both investigating
the incident to determine the cause” of a small hole found on a Russian
spacecraft attached to the International Space Station. PHOTO: AFP
US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter have won the 2018
Nobel Chemistry Prize.  PHOTO: AFP
environment, with evolution solv-
ing complex chemical problems:
fish can for example swim in po-
lar oceans because they have
antifreeze proteins in their blood.
The trio used the principles
of evolution—genetic change and
selection—to develop proteins
now used in a range of fields,
in what is known as directed
evolution.“They have applied
the principles of Darwin in test
tubes. They have used the mo-
lecular understanding we have
scosmos immediately launched
an investigation into the hole, and
its chief official Dmitry Rogozin
went on television days later to
say it could have been the result
of foul play either back on Earth
or by astronauts in space.
“Where it was made will be
established by a second com-
mission, which is at work now,”
said Rogozin, a former Russian
deputy prime minister who was
placed under US sanctions over
the Ukraine crisis in 2014.
The Russian daily Kommer-
sant reported that an investiga-
tion at home was probing the
possibility that US astronauts
deliberately drilled the hole in
order to get a sick colleague sent
back home—something Russian
officials later denied.—AFP
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
of the evolutionary process and
recreated the process in their
labs,” the head of the Academy’s
Nobel Chemistry committee,
Claes Gustafsson, told reporters.
“They have been able to make
evolution many 1000s of times
faster and redirect it to create
new proteins.”
‘Bouncing off the walls’
Arnold, 62, who has survived
breast cancer and is a single
mother to three sons, is a pro-
JUUL: e-cigarette dominates the market
—and fears of parents
WASHINGTON—In just three
years, electronic cigarette maker
JUUL has come to dominate the
American market with its vap-
ing devices that look like thumb
drives, a business success that
has brought a public health di-
lemma for authorities in the US,
and elsewhere.
On the one hand, e-ciga-
rettes expose users to signifi-
cantly lower levels of potentially
toxic substances, except for nico-
tine, the US National Academies
of Sciences, Engineering and
Medicine said this year.
Converting conventional cig-
arette smokers to vaping would
therefore reduce the number of
cancer cases.
At the same time, numer-
ous parents and high schools say
teenagers are using JUUL, rais-
ing fears that a new generation is
being exposed to nicotine, which
is addictive but not cancerous.
The US Food and Drug Ad-
ministration has denounced “an
epidemic of regular nicotine use
among teens,” and confirmed to
AFP that its agents made a sur-
prise inspection Friday of JUUL’s
San Francisco headquarters,
seizing more than a thousand
pages of documents on its mar-
keting practices.
The startup wasn’t the first
on the market, but it quickly de-
fessor of chemical engineering at
the California Institute of Tech-
nology.
“I’m bouncing off the walls
but I’m trying to pretend to sound
calm and collected,” she told the
Nobel Foundation in an inter-
view, adding she was “annoyed”
she couldn’t reach her sons to
give them the news. “They never
answer the phone when Mom
calls.”
Her method of rewriting
DNA to mimic evolution has
An electronic JUUL cigarette box includes a rechargeable device and
cartridges containing nicotine as well as the flavoring that alarms
regulators. PHOTO: AFP
throned tobacco giants, including
British American Tobacco, which
markets e-cigarettes using a dif-
ferent technology.
JUUL has soared from a two
percent market share in 2016 to
29 percent in December 2017, ac-
cording to data published Tues-
day in JAMA, the Journal of the
American Medical Association.
By September of this year,
JUUL had reached almost 73
percent of the market, according
to Nielsen data provided to AFP
by JUUL. The e-cigarette mar-
ket remains a fraction of overall
tobacco sales but is growing fast.
“Like many Silicon Valley
technology startups, our growth
is the result of a superior product
disrupting an archaic industry
—in this case, one whose prod-
15
helped solve problems such as
replacing toxic chemicals like
fossil fuels. As a result, renew-
able resources like sugar cane
are being converted into biofuels.
More environmentally friendly
chemical substances are being
developed, improving everyday
products such as laundry and
dishwashing detergents to en-
hance their performance in cold
temperatures.
“What I do is copy nature’s
design process. All this tremen-
dous beauty and complexity of
the biological world all comes
about through this one simple
beautiful design algorithm,” she
told the Foundation. “What I do is
use that algorithm to build new
biological things,” she said.
“Nature is solving all sorts
of problems that we throw at her
such as how to degrade plastic
bottles, how to degrade pesti-
cides and herbicides and antibi-
otics... she creates new enzymes
in response to that all the time,
in real time.”—AFP
ucts are the number one cause
of preventable death,” JUUL told
AFP in a statement.
It added that the company
“has helped more than one mil-
lion Americans switch from cig-
arettes.”CEO Kevin Burns said
the company is cooperating with
the FDA to “keep JUUL out of
the hands of young people,” and
has turned over 50,000 pages of
documents to the federal health
regulator since April.
JUUL is also available in
Britain, Canada and Israel, al-
though the latter country has
forbidden sale of the strongest
doses of nicotine.
Others, including Australia
and Japan, have limited sales
of the product to medical use
only.—AFP
16 SPORT
MFF, MNL officials, referees
hold discussions
MFF and MNL officials and referees holding a meeting. PHOTO: MNA
OFFICIALS from Myanmar
Football Federation (MFF)
and Myanmar National League
(MNL) and referees who were
in-charge of the football match-
es throughout the 2018 football
season held a meeting at the
Thuwunna Gymnasium on Oc-
tober 3.
Present on the occasion
were U Ko Ko Thein, general
secretary of MFF, U Soe Moe
Kyaw, CEO of MNL, U Hsu
Aung, chief of management of
MNL, director U Tun Hla Aung
of Refereeing Department, U
Win Cho, chairman of Refer-
ee Committee, adviser U Tin
Aung (goalie) of Refereeing
Department of MFF, referees
and refereeing supervisors
who discharged their duties in
U-19 women’s football squad to play two
matches against Thailand U-19
AS part of preparations for
taking part in the 2019 Asian
Football Confederation (AFC)
U-19 Women’s Championship
Qualification, Myanmar U-19
women’s football squad will
demonstrate two warm-up
matches against Thailand U-19
women’s football team. The
friendly matches will be held
Mourinho and Manchester United longing
for past glories
MANCHESTER (United King-
dom)—Manchester United
manager Jose Mourinho again
pointed the finger at his play-
ers’ failings rather than his own
shortcomings after a 0-0 Cham-
pions League draw with Valen-
cia that did little to lift spirits at
Old Trafford. Mourinho has now
various football tournaments
organized by the MNL during
the 2018 football season.
At the start of the meeting,
U Soe Moe Kyaw highlighted
the flaws of the referees dis-
covered throughout the foot-
ball season, but praised them
for their correct decisions and
performance. He also urged
responsible persons of the
refereeing department to put
more efforts into the improve-
ment of the referees’ ability
and producing more new
generation qualified referees.
“The MFF has planned to im-
prove the role of the referees
before the upcoming football
season. The referees need to
correct their mistakes and
prepare to show off their best
at Thuwunna Youth Training
Center at 3.30 pm on October
5 and at 6 pm on October 7.
Football enthusiasts can watch
the warm-up matches free of
charge.
Daw Thet Thet Win will
take charge of Myanmar U-19
women’s football team as the
head coach. The Myanmar team
failed to win in four consecutive
home matches for the first time
in his career following defeat to
Tottenham, a draw against newly
promoted Wolves and a League
Cup exit on penalties to second
division Derby.
Already nine points adrift of
Premier League leaders Man-
performance in the upcoming
football season,” said U Ko Ko
Thein.
After that U Hsu Aung
said, “Referees should make
decisive actions on foul plays
during football matches. They
must follow rules and regula-
tions. They should make fair
decisions on violations and
mete out punishment. The
capability of junior referees
must be enhanced to enable
them to handle first-class tour-
naments.”
Next, U Tin Aung (goalie)
gave words of advice to the
referees and the refereeing
supervisors. Afterwards, U
Tun Hla Aung and U Win Cho
cross-questioned the refer-
ees.—Htut Htut (Twantay)
is comprised of 40 members,
including 31 players, and 9 man-
agers and coaches. Myanmar
U-19 women’s football team
hammered Singapore U-19
women’s football team with a
wide margin of 7-0 in a friend-
ly match at Thuwunna Youth
Training Center on September
6.—Htute Htut (Twantay)
chester City and Liverpool, it now
appears a question of when and not
if Mourinho goes, with an unhappy
squad now mirrored by disgruntled
fans and outspoken former players.
The home faithful implored
their side to “attack, attack, at-
tack” in the second half of Tues-
day’s stalemate.— AFP
THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR
Pogba says ‘not allowed’
to talk after Manchester
United stalemate
MANCHESTER (United King-
dom)—Paul Pogba said he was
not allowed to talk after Man-
chester United failed to arrest
their recent slump with a drab
0-0 Champions League draw
against Valencia. Jose Mour-
inho’s United have made their
worst start to a league campaign
in 29 years after an embarrass-
ing 3-1 loss at West Ham and are
already out of the League Cup.
Tuesday’s stalemate at Old
Trafford was their fourth consec-
utive match without a win.
Many players avoided the
post-match mixed zone inter-
view area after the game to avoid
awkward questions.
Pogba was among those to
go through but told reporters
“I’ve been told I’m not allowed
(to talk).”
The French World Cup win-
ner, who was last week told he
would not captain the side again,
appeared to get under Mourin-
ho’s skin after their recent draw
with Wolves by saying United
should attack more.
Captain Antonio Valencia
and midfielder Marouane
Fellaini have both backed
the manager despite the
growing crisis at the club.
Valencia insisted he is
“fully supportive” of Mour-
inho after appearing to back
calls for the under-fire man-
5 OCTOBER 2018
ager to leave.
The 33-year-old ‘liked’ an
Instagram post from a fan ac-
count which said that “recently
Mourinho has made watching us
a punishment” and “it’s time for
Mourinho to go”.
But he attempted to explain
and apologise on Wednesday.
“Yesterday, I liked a post on
Instagram without reading the
text that accompanied the pic-
ture,” the right-back wrote on
Twitter. “These are not my views
and I apologise for this. I am fully
supportive of the manager and
my teammates.” “Everything
will calm down when we get
some wins,” the Ecuadoran add-
ed. “We are 100 per cent behind
the manager.”
The players attempted to
show a united front before kick-
off by breaking with tradition
and taking part in a pre-match
huddle.
“Everyone is going in the
same direction to try to improve
and to do better,” Fellaini said
of the on-pitch huddle. “I think
we wanted to show that we are
together.”
“I think we showed im-
provement and we have to
keep going,” he added.
“Everybody (was be-
hind the idea). I think
everybody is behind the
manager.”— AFP
Manchester United
midfielder Paul Pogba has
been stripped of the vice-
captaincy of the club by Jose
Mourinho.PHOTO: AFP